Jar or bottle stopper.



A. 'P. LEE. JAR 0B BOTTLE STOPPER. APPLIUATIO N FILED JUNE 26, 1908;

914,960. Patented Mar. 9, 1909.

'UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT P. LEE, OFBUFFALO, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO GROVER & LEE COMPANY, OFBUFFALO, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

JAB OR BOTTLE STOPPER.

Patented March 9, 1909.

Application filed June 26, 1908. Serial Ne. 0,623.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT P. LEE, of Buffalo, in the county of Erie andState of New York, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements inJar or Bottle Stoppers; and I do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art. to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

The primary object of this invention is to provide a disk-stopper formilk jars or bottles which will aflord additional security andprotection to the contents from storm, rain, or water, and prevent themilk from-being injured by contaminating odors, etc.

A further object is to enable the milk to be poured from the jar withoutthe necessity of entirely removing the stopper, thus avoiding all dangerof the latter beng soiled and thereby rendered incapable of further use.

The invention will be hereinafter fully set forth and particularlypointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan View. Fig. 2 is a viewin perspec tive showing the stopper extended from a jar. Fig. 3 is aplan vlew of a slight modification. Fig. 4 shows the same form in closedposition. Fig. 5 is another modification.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates the outer disk, a portion ofwhich is cut away, as at 2, to form a tab 3 by which the disk may beextracted from the mouth of a jar or bottle.

4 designates a second disk which is unite'd at 5 to disk 1 while 6 isthe inner disk Which is united to thesecond or intermediate disk 4 atthe point 7, which is diametrically opposite the point of union betweenthe first and second disks.

If desired the third or inner disk may be truly circular, like thesecond disk 4, as shown in Fig. 5, but preferably this inner disk isformed with two cut-outs, 8 and 9, so that when the disks 1 and 4 havebeen Withdrawn, but not disconnected from the inner disk, milk may bepoured from the jar without the necessity of entirely removing thestopper, the milk being poured through the larger opening 8 and airadmitted through the smaller opening 9. If the jar is not entirelyemptied, it may be again sealed by folding over and re lacing the disks4 and 1, which not having een disconnected from the jar will not in anyway serve to injure the contents thereof, as sooften happens where thedisks are laid to one side while the jar is in use. If desired theperiphery of the outermost disk may be cut away to form the tab 3* asshown in Figs. 3 and 4, and the cut-out 8 may likewise involve theremoval of athe outer face of the intermediate disk 4 and r on bothfaces of the disk 1. The disks are cut from one piece of material bymeans of a die or any suitable machine, and are preferably made fromwood pulp, and in covering the faces of the disk with paraffin, thelatter, while hot, is allowed to run around the edges of the disk sothat a ractically solid disk is thereby produced which will afford ampleprotection to the contents of the jar and render the same air tight.

In practice, in removing the stopper, for the purpose of pouring some ofthe contents from the jar, the operator grasps the tab of the outer diskand after removing the latter draws with it the intermediate disk 4.These two disks are suspended from the jar while a portion of thecontents is being poured through the opening in the innermost disk;whereupon the two disks may be restored. If, however, the jar is to bewholly emptied a further pull on the outer disk will remove the entirestopper.

I claim as my invention:

1. A stopper for jars or bottles composed of a plurality of circulardisks, each disk being connected to an adjacent disk, the connectionbetween intermediate disks being at diametrically opposite points, theoutermost disk having a cut-out and a tab within such cut-out. 1

2. A sto per for jars or bottles composed of a plurality of disks, eachdisk being connected to another, the innermost disk having I 5. Astopper for ars or bottles composed a liquid-outlet opening and anair-inlet 0 enof a plurallty of disks, each disk being coning, and theoutermost disk having a ta nected to another, the innermost disk havin3. A stopper for jars or bottles composed an opening near its periphery,and a secon 5 of a plurality of disks, each disk being c'onopeningdiametrieallyo posite the first open- 20 'nected to another and allformed from a sining, andthe outermost isk havingatab near gle blank,the innermost disk having oppoits periphery. site cut-outs, such diskand cut-outs being In testimony whereof, I have signed this covered bythe outer disks. specification in the presence of two subscrib- 10 4. Astopper for jars or bottles composed ing Witnesses.

of a plurality of disks, each disk being con- ALBERT P. LEE.

nected to another, the innermost disk having opposite cut-outs, and theoutermost disk Witnesses:

having a cut-out and a tab within such B. H. RATHMAN'N, l5 cut-out.CYRUS P. LEE.

